GUEST ARTISTS(2018)

馬才和 Victor Choi-wo MA(HongKong)

Dance

Victor Choi-wo MA founded Y-Space in 1995 and is the artistic director. He was in the first graduating class of the School of Dance of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Upon graduation, he joined The Hong Kong Ballet, and resumed study at the HKAPA School of Drama in 1990. In 1996, he received the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship to conduct research on dance and theatre in the USA. In 2002, he further received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council-University of Leeds-Chevening Scholarships for a Master’s degree programme in Performance Studies in the UK. As a choreographer with over 60 creations, he has also been a movement director for many local and international companies from Taiwan, China, South Korea, India, the USA, Australia, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Zimbabwe, etc. His major works include None of Your Business, Not a Double Room, Unconscious I & II, Dance “In” Possible!? I - V, Improvisation Land Series 1 - 62, Air and Breath I & II, Body, I.D. & Space I - V, Victor Ma's Dance Exhibition I & II, RE/evolution, Suddenly, On and On and Turn Turn Turn…, Room X, Door etc. He has received the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2016 on Artist of the Year (Dance). He has been the Artistic Director and Curator of i-Dance Festival (HK) since 2009.

​嚴明然Mandy Ming-yin YIM(HongKong)

Dance

Co- founder of Y-Space, Mandy Yim graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Dance. She was the Hong Kong Ballet and City Contemporary Dance Company dancer from 1988 – 1996. She was a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship in 1996 to do her dance research in the USA. In 2000, she was invited to create a site-specific work＂Chop-Suey” for the Harare International Festival of the Arts, September in same year, was invited to attend the Norway Oktoberdans Festival & End of Millenium Festival and participate in performing arts festival of artists -in-residence program, has also been invited to Germany Delesideng Tanzwoche Festival Wishful Thinking Project, Korea Fringe Festival , India Kolkata Interface Festival, Australia Melbourne Beyond Butoh Fringe Festival, Beijing Dashanzi International Art Festival , Shenzhen OCAT Comtemporary Dance Festival & Hunan Changde , Poland International Comtemporary Dance Conference & Performance Festival, i-Dance Taipei, i-Dance Korea, i-Dance Japan creation, Hunan and Beijing of China for performances and exchanges. Since 2009, Yim has acted as the producer of i-Dance Festival (HK) and her teaching, performances, creation toured Europe, Asia and Africa. Yim is currently the Education and Outreach Director of Y-Space.

Chico Katsube (Japan)

Dance

Chico Katsube is a dance improvisation artist from Osaka, Japan. She is a one of a leading figure of contact improvisation in Japan. In 2000, she founded Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. in Tokyo and has organized international and local projects with many talented artists. In 2012, she moved from Tokyo to Kagoshima with Shoko Kashima. They started the activity with the focus on exploring and integrating Asian culture into improvisation, as well as to establish the art community in the countryside of Kagoshima. She and
Shoko became the member of “I-Dance” since 2011, and are organizing i-Dance Japan from 2013.

Shoko Kashima(Japan)

Dance

Shoko Kashima is a dance improvisation artist /Photographer /Organizer.
She began working with Chico Katsube, as a co- director of Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. since 2005. She has performed with many talented artists and taught contact improvisation, bodywork with Chico world wide. She moved to countryside in Kagoshima with Chico in 2012, and is exploring various activities of improvisation dance and arts, also trying self-sufficient life together with natural farming as much as possible.
She and Chico are organizing i-Dance Japan from 2013.
She received her Master of Arts in Dance Education from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo in 1997. In 2002, she is awarded a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists to study dance in New York.

Naomi Minomo is a pianist, voice performer, composer based in Kagoshima, Japan.

She and her husband are doing music duo unit “mi-no”, her song was tied up for TV news program of MBC.

She had a fateful encounter with Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. and started to collaborate and with them and exploring improvisation from 2016.

She performed with C.I.co. “ Charity performance for Kumamoto earthquake” “ Kurun Coron - the performance workshop for babies and mothers” “ Kirishima Art Day ~ Improvisation” and so on.

She has taught the piano and organ for children more then twenty years, and got an award of excellence of Hammond Festival, and a gold prize of west Japan concour as a piano teacher. She teaches Japanese Nursery rhymes, also giving storytelling with music for children. She believes music is communication tools.

Soo Jin Park

Dance, Network manger

Soo Jin Park, am active in "Momjitneuru" and movement theater "Dumbeong", and more interested in the function of dance to faithfully live out my life beyond the boundaries of art and non-art.dd Description here

Bongho Kim 김봉호(Korea)

Dance, Adviser

He is the Member of AIAE Korea and Member of ET AUSSI Dance Company (2007-2013) with Celine Bacque. He is active both locally and internationally, teaching dance contact improvisation in dance centers and festivals in Asia and Europe. He is particularly interested in supporting and expanding improvisation networks in Asia. He first entered into theater in 1993 then 1996 switched the direction to dance and worked in various Korean dance companies and improved greatly.

Namo is a dance artist, improvisor, choreographer and movement researcher.

He studied Fine arts (B.F.A.) and choreography (M.F.A.).

as a Certified Somatic Movement Educator(SME) of School for Body-Mind Centering®(BMC), He’s been offering variable workshops and making performances in a somatic way.

Thesedays, He’s been working as the artist duo, BARINAMO with his parter,

Bari Kim since 2013.

나모는 움직임 리서치를 기반으로 공연, 즉흥, 안무를 합니다.

바디마인드센터링의 소매틱 움직임 교육자로 소매틱 접근으로 한 창작과 워크샵을 진행해 오고 있습니다.

현재 아티스트 김바리와 바리나모로 활동중입니다.

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Irene Sposetti ( Italy)

Dance

Irene is a multidisciplinary performing artist, educator and choreographer.

While originally from Italy she has spent the last 18 years traveling and living in Europe, India and China.

Her formal training is in dance, classical music (flute and voice) and theatre.

Her artistic path has been influenced by many different cultures and is deeply intertwined with her self-inquiry, spiritual practices and philosophy. Her dance practice is mainly inspired by Contact Improvisation, Instant Composition Techniques, Experiential Anatomy, Body-Mind Centering, Body Work, Yoga, Meditation and Singing Practices.
The main theme of her movement research is improvisation. Through her practice she aims for a heightened state of presence, increased awareness in the body, effortless motion, and a broadening of the technical and investigative skills of the mover. She has a particular interest in intuitive learning processes, empowering individuals, and promoting independent research and artistic projects. She explores inner and outer ecology - believing that a healthy and creative relationship to the body can generate awareness, trust and authenticity in our lives as individuals and as a collective.

In 2011 she created Being Motion, a platform for sharing her artistic practices, research, creations and educational projects. @BeingMotion

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Miura Ichi-go (Japan)

Music

He is an ethnic percussionist (Brazilian, Indian, Irish, Arabic) and multi instrument player in his original style since 2001. Composing music and teaching percussions are his life works as well as playing in the performance.

Seo Kyong-sun 서경선 (Korea)

Dance,Organizer

She has experimented various projects through the body such as exploration of the body, art as a way of living valuable life. She participated in Residency of Seongbuk Art Center, Seoul Dance Center, and Kyoto Art Center.

Currently, She is doing a series of 'house series' which is a relay-type performance with his/her own house as a stage and 'Tut network' which is a group explores through the body once a month.

Asia Improvisation Art Exchange A-Reum is fascinated by art creation that arises from interpersonal relationships. Therefore she had been collaborating with artist from different disciplines and dance form expressions. She's currently concentrating on research on modern dance based on Korean traditional dance.

Mei Li graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with MA degree with
distinction. She worked with Kirstie Simson in the filming of ‘International
Documentary of Dance Improvisation’ and ‘Dance Cambodia,’ and has been invited
to perform and teach improvisation in numerous festivals such as ‘Contact
Improvisation Festival Japan,’ and ‘Asian Improvisation Art Exchange’ in Seoul, ‘i-
dance Taipei’, ‘i- dance Hong Kong’ , ‘Hong Kong E-Side Arts Festival,’ ‘Contact
Festival Kuala Lumpur,’ ‘Festival International de Danse Contemporaine’ in
Madagascar. She is an active practitioner, a performer of improvisation
She has also been invited to various artist residency programs, such as World Dance
Day in India, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and Kio-A-Thau Artist-in-
Residence,Taipei Public Arts Festival, and New Taipei City Public Art in Taiwan.
Recently she is choreographing a site specific project for Preparatory Office of the
National Human Rights Museum.
As a dance educator in Taiwan, she has organized workshops for Taiwan’s various
communities and populations, from the physically challenged to opera singers to
musicians. She has worked with the National Theater and Concert Hall in Taiwan and
National Taichung Theater giving public lectures and Dance Improvisation
Workshops. She is currently the Director at “MKL Creativity/Psychology Workstation,”
an improvisation teacher at Dance Forum Taipei Dance Company, and a member of
Ku &amp; Dancers Dance Company since 1999.

Jinsoo Kim (Korea)_Solmoomn

Dance, idk2018 Artistic director

솔문 김진수

현_아시아 춤극 연구소 대표

대표작 : 대화, 저곳, 버려지지 않은 것들

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Garam Kim (Korea)

Dance, Organizers

Garam Kim is an ‘AIAE Korea’ member who performs choreography and improvisation.
She consistently perceives the existence of ‘I’ given to the world and in the experience of the life constantly changing ‘I’, and looks at her action. She also researches the center of the body which is expands and deepens by the circulation of breath

Yeonji had started movement practicing with Korean swordsmanship(Haidong
Gumdo) in 2001 and continued practicing it for 7 years in South Korea. In 2016, she got
interested in improvisation dance and started learning it by Emmanuel Grivet. She is now
creating graduation pieces by the 2 years of education at TIP(Schule Für Tanz und
Improvisation & Performance) in Germany. After this education, she’s going to continue
performing based on improvisation dance as a form of stage-performance.

2012-2014 Charlotte dances with: Gruppo Oito „Dance for Sale“ and Phillip Rives,
„Interventions in Urban Space“
She works as a theater pedagogue at Forum Kreuzberg (Berlin), where she realizes
projects within the areas of dance/theater/film.
At SNDO Amsterdam Charlotte gets a further education in choreography.
2015 the dance-theater piece „I’ve seen a wolf“ gets created. This duet piece is cocreated
by Philosophicum Basel and has been shown at Ackermannshof Basel and
supported by Jugendkulturpauschale Basel and Kulturkick Basel.
also in 2015 she realizes the interdisciplinary projekt TrashHoldopera together with the
finish artist Sampsa Pirtola and german artist Hannah Jäckel.
2015-2016 Hatha Vinyassa Yoga education with Detlev Alexander/ Nancy Yovanovic,
Berlin.
2016-2018 Charlotte follows her deep interest in improvisation and follows the two-year
program at TIP-School for Dance Improvisation and Performance.
She graduates the school with two dance pieces (Trio-Improvisation and “We Are
Extremely Fortunate”)

Kanghee Choi

Music

​Born in Seoul, Korea. Kanghee Choi is a composer and improviser. In 2010, his first contemporary classical music piece, <The Moon, The Lake, and the Butterfly> was premiered in New York along with the new pieces of world renowned composers such as Terry Champlin, Allen Brings, David Loeb and Ornette Coleman. Since then, he has been experimenting new sounds and performing worldwide.